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Yoshitomo Nara - Drawings 1984-2013Blum & Poe 2014 ISBN 9780966350371 Acqn 23874Pb 24x26cm 240pp 225col ills 37

Yoshitomo Nara: Drawings focuses on the internationally acclaimed Japanese artist's prolific

drawing output of the past 30 years. Rendered in coloured pencil and acrylic, Nara's drawings areexecuted on a variety of paper types, such as found envelopes, stationery and inexpensive linedsheets, and deftly fuse Japanese visual traditions such as manga and anime with Westernmodernism and elements of American pop culture. The artist's ever-increasing cast of childlike,vulnerable but sinister characters has won him a devoted following around the world. With anabundance of colour plates, Yoshitomo Nara: Drawingsincludes reproductions of early worksnever publicly exhibited and omitted from the artist's catalogue raisonn, as well as an essay byMasue Kato. The volume is published in conjunction with a large-scale exhibition of Nara'spaintings, drawings and sculptures at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, in Spring 2014.

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Kaws - Final DaysCAC Malaga 2014 ISBN 9788494216916 Acqn 24204Hb 23x29cm 84pp 43ills 42col 32

Brian Donnelly, professionally known as KAWS, is a New York-based artist and designer oflimited edition toys and clothing. His signature style of paintings, sculpture and figurative objectsincludes repetitive imagery that is intended to be universally understood, surpassing languagesand cultures. Familiar childhood icons like Mickey Mouse and the Smurfs are reworked in hisrepresentations, which display a fascination with the mechanisms of popular culture, infusing

them with suggestions of deeper human emotions and straddling the line between fine art andglobal commerce. This book is published in conjunction with a solo exhibition of KAWS at CACMlaga.

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Rebels Rebel - AIDS, Art and Activism in New York, 1979-1989MER. Paper Kunsthalle 2014 ISBN 9789490693237 Acqn 24473Pb 13x21cm 264pp 130ills 29.95

Rebels Rebellooks at the history of AIDS activism undertaken by various artistic collectives inNew York between 1979 and 1989. Among these once-controversial, now-legendary collectiveswere Gran Fury (who scandalized the 1990 Venice Biennale with their billboards juxtaposing thepope and his anti-contraception stance with a two-foot high penis), the Silence = Death Project(who appropriated and inverted the Nazis' pink triangle), Gang and DIVA TV. These collectivesaddressed concrete social problems using unconventional media, and in doing so helped to shiftthe public and political perception of the AIDS crisis. Collating a wealth of materials andperspectives, from graphic design to art works, and from sociopolitical to art-historical reflections,Rebel Rebelsis an important and thorough examination of a rare overlap between art andactivism during a time of heightened conservativism in America. It includes a full-colour poster.

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Julian Schnabel - Draw a FamilyKarma 2014 ISBN 9781938560569 Acqn 24474Hb 19x24cm 544pp 374col ills 41

Over the span of his 40-year career, Julian Schnabel has moved effortlessly across mediums,working in film, design and the fine art world. Draw a Familyreturns our focus to Schnabel'sseminal career as a painter, reminding us that this is the field in which he has continuously thrived

since the 1970s. This massive, clothbound volume is comprised of paintings made between 1973and 2013 and includes artwork from nearly every stage in the artist's oeuvrefrom his early oilon canvas works to his most recent flag paintings. The nearly 400 colour images in Draw aFamilylook back at the early genius that made Schnabel an international name and show whythis New York artist continues to redefine the parameters of painting.

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Kelley WalkerPaula Cooper Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780975392164 Acqn 24475Pb 22x25cm 116pp 233col ills 44.50

This comprehensive catalogue was published on the occasion of New Yorkbased artist KelleyWalker's (born 1969) solo exhibition at the Paula Cooper Gallery in 2014. The catalogue begins

with an essay by noted art historian Robert Hobbs, which examines the technical and conceptualscope of Walker's art. Hobbs finds parallels between Walker's work and that of RobertRauschenberg and Symbolist poet Stphane Mallarm. The publication also includes 233 superbfull-colour reproductions which highlight the sharp digital imagery of Walker's multi-panel works,the layered polychrome hues of his silkscreens and the complex spatial play at work in hissculpture. Ten fold-out spreads spanning 40 pages give the reader a sense of the expansivedimensions of his multi-panel silkscreen pieces, the first of which is comprised of 196 parts.

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Continue Without Losing Consciousness - Rob Churm, Raydale Dower, Tony SwainDundee Contemporary Arts 2014 ISBN 9780992709501 Acqn 24476Pb 16x22cm 80pp 47ills 27col 10

Rob Churm creates drawings, collages and prints which take their inspiration from undergroundcomics and zines and from artists like Giovanni Battista Piranesi and William Blake. RaydaleDower will install sound and sculptural works that play with duration, volume and void. TonySwain paints directly onto printed newspaper pages to create his works. All three have workedwith contemporary art and music in Scotland since the 90s. Rob Churm, Raydale Dower andTony Swain have previously worked together on an exhibition entitled Le Drapeau Noiras part ofthe 2010 Glasgow International Festival. This exhibition explored avant-garde mythology, Dada,

caf culture anarchic history and underground music in a temporary artist caf. ForContinueWithout Losing Consciousnesswe have worked with the artists to develop their original conceptinto new projects for the DCA Galleries. The exhibition will include prints, paintings, sculpture andsound works.

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Ntiense Eno Amooquaye - Artist Audio RecorderIntoart 2014 ISBN 9780948835537 Acqn 24492Pb 15x22cm 80pp 62col ills 15

Documenting Ntiense Eno Amooquaye's first solo exhibition 'Hera Master Come Down' at The

Saison Poetry Library in 2014, and her wide wide-ranging explorations of print, text, image andperformance. Foreword by Chris McCabe, Poetry Librarian at The Saison Poetry Library: 'Thereare few artists that can create genuinely beautiful work that also embodies, and foregrounds, theirworking processes. Perhaps this is because artists would like to appear as if their inspirationsarrive readily formed and fully realised as 'finished' work. As if the thinking, research andinspiration behind the work are simply aspects to be boxed-up, shelved and hidden from publicview. We are fortunate that there are some artists who bring us into their world of creation andallow us to see how they arrived at their end point. Ntiense Eno Amooquaye is one of thoseartists.' Chris McCabe.

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Odd Nerdrum - The Nerdrum SchoolArvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2014 ISBN 9789187543043 Acqn 22986Hb 25x27cm 256pp 280ills 270col 50

Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum (born 1944) was a student at the Academy of Art in Oslo whenModernism first made its delayed entry to Norway. He broke away from his peers who ralliedaround Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, and became a follower of Rembrandt and a painter inthe classical tradition. Art students from all over the world have since sought out his teachings,and many have become internationally known in their own rights. This book documents the

influence of Odd Nerdrum, and his followers who went on to become some of the leading artistsof todays figurative painting.

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John BuckMarquand Books Inc. 2014 ISBN 9780615864525 Acqn 23396Hb 28x31cm 200pp 250ills 200col 45

Over the past ten years, Iowa-born sculptor John Buck (born 1946), known for his woodblockprints, wall reliefs and three-dimensional freestanding works, has experimented with the additionof mechanical components to his wooden sculptures. This publication presents Bucks kineticsculptures.

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Anton Alvarez - Thread Wrapping MachineArvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2014 ISBN 9789187543524 Acqn 24247Hb 17x24cm 224pp 195ills 175col 24.95

Anton Alvarez has spent two years developing a machine that spins thousands of metres ofbrightly coloured thread around pieces of wood and metal to join them, producing solid benches,stools and lamps without traditional joints of any kind. The thread acts as an joining element,allowing the raw material being wrapped to be extremely elaborate without appearing so.

Alvarezs work has been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum and is represented by LibbySellers Gallery in London. In photos, interviews and essays, this book presents the evolution ofthe thread wrapping technique, with an essay by UglyCute founder Andreas Nobel and aforeword by legendary British artist and curator Richard Wentworth. The book is produced incollaboration with Gustavsbergs Konsthall.

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Alice Neel - My Animals And Other FamilyVictoria Miro Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780992709259 Acqn 24340Pb 20x24cm 52pp 24ills 22col 25

Neel was a keen observer of life, and in addition to her penetrating studies of people, she focusedher attention on her surroundings, be it in the form of still life, landscape or impromptu vignette.Within the domestic habitat of her family, animalsespecially cats and dogswere a part of herdaily life. As a result, over the course of her career from the 1930s until her death in 1984, we findfascinating examples of works that include or focus on particular animals. This exhibition featuresa group of paintings and drawings in which Neel captures the character and spirit of people and

of animals. In her animal portrayals as in her other work, Neel responded directly to what was infront of her. With all her subjects, human and animal, Neel had a talent for identifying particulargestures and mannerisms that reveal the singular and unique identities of her sitters. Neelsportrayal of animals in her work was varied. In some paintings they were presented in conjunctionwith a person in a portrait, other times as a vignette of daily life, sometimes they were renderedfrom memory and occasionally they were presented as an actual, very individual portrait.

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Wangechi Mutu - Nguva na NyokaVictoria Miro Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780992709266 Acqn 24341Hb 23x29cm 60pp 27ills 24col 25

Mutu's practice has been described as engaging in her own unique form of myth-making. Thisexhibition, Nguva na Nyoka (meaning "Sirens and Serpents" in Kiswahili) presents Mutu's latestbody of collage, video and sculptural works. Drawing on such diverse references as East Africancoastal mythologies (particularly of nguvas, or water women), gender and racial politics, Westernpopular culture, Eastern and ancient beliefs and autobiography, in her works Mutu proposesworlds within worlds, populated by powerful hybridised female figures.Mutu's latest collage-paintings are defined by a shift away from her much-documented use of

Mylar as a substrate to a use of vinyl and linoleum as the basis for the works, allowing for a moredensely textured and sculptural ground. Painterly techniques are employed alongside Mutu'ssignature construction of images comprised of deftly cut-out and collaged forms. In addition,Mutu's visual language is further enriched in these works by her use of unexpected materialssuch as tea, batik fabrics, synthetic hair, Kenyan soil, feathers, and sand, amongst other media -many of which are imbued with their own cultural significations.

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Stan DouglasFruitmarket Gallery 2014 ISBN 9781908612311 Acqn 24423Hb 17x23cm 160pp 80ills 30col 17.95

Stan Douglas came to international prominence in the mid-1990s when his film installation DerSandmannwas one of the highlights of Documenta X in 1997. Born in 1960, Vancouver, Canada,Douglas is known for films, photographs and installations which use new and outdatedtechnologies, the tropes of cinema, TV and photography, the conventions of various Hollywoodgenres, and classic literary texts to examine the intersection of history and memory in evocative,mesmerising artworks.The exhibition includes the video installation Vido, a reimagining of both Orson Welless film TheTrial(itself based on Kafkas novel of the same name) and Becketts film Film; photographs fromMidcentury Studio, a recent series of photographs taken by Douglas posing as a fictional North

American post-war press photographer; Corrupt Files, a sequence of large, beautiful, abstractimages; and Hogans Alleya companion piece to The SecondHotel Vancouver.

Together, these works provide both a rich introduction to and a reminder of practice of StanDouglas whose investigations into mistaken identity and unstable memory, reconstruction,reinvention and the long shadows the past cast into the present, make him one of the mostinteresting and important artists of our time.

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Studio Talks: Thinking Through PaintingArvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2014 ISBN 9789187543548 Acqn 24440Hb 15x12cm 418pp 21col ills 26.50

Thinking Through Painting is an on-going investigation of contemporary painting since2009, involving numerous discussions and studio visits. The book was initiated after adiscussion between Swedish artist Jan Rydn and curator Jonatan Habib Engqvist abouthow the contemporary institutional and theoretical art scene often seems to be uneasy, andat times even lost in its relationship to painting. Together with the artists Kristina Bengthand Sigrid Sandstrm, they embarked on a project that would investigate painting as a

way of thinking with a group composed of a curator/philosopher and three theoreticallyminded painters who all have different points of departure and dissimilar painting practices.Taking the artists perspective as a point of departure, the book collects over 400 pages ofcommissioned texts and transcribed conversations between artists, theorists, curators andcritics active in Stockholm, Oslo and New York.

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Robert Devriendt - Unsolved CasesMarlborough Fine Art 2014 ISBN 9781909707139 Acqn 24463Pb 29x20cm 44pp 68col ills 12.50

Devriendts work depicts the gaze of an alter ego, moving through reality like a peeping Tom.Most of the disturbing events taking place in the paintings in fact do not appear in the works butare implied by the narrative connections between them. As a result, it remains unclear if anythingactually happens or whether the observer is simply being misled by the suggestive combination ofthe paintings. The works are therefore unsolved cases in which the interpretation of the observeris crucial, as they attempt to infer and unravel meaning through their own interpretations.Devriendts work is based on a solid conceptual framework; he contemplates how stories come

into existence and the ways in which the fragmentised painted image plays a part in this process.Devriendt prioritises the representation of selected images as a strategy for examining themotives of perception.Devriendts precise and sensual style of painting incorporates a complex layering, both technicaland thematic. His paintings refer to realist styles spanning the breadth of art history. Theseinclude references not only to early Flemish painting, but also to glossy magazines, film and otherforms of contemporary imagery.

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Paula Rego - The Last King Of Portugal And Other StoriesMarlborough Fine Art 2014 ISBN 9781909707122 Acqn 24464Pb 24x30cm 36pp 28col ills 12.50

The Last King of Portugalis a series of pastels focusing on the life of Manuel II, who was

crowned king in 1908 at the age of 19 following the assassination of his father King Carlos I. Hewas known as The Patriot and his reign lasted only two years, ending in 1910 with the Republicanrevolution and resultant dissolution of the monarchy. He fled to Britain, where he remained inexile for the rest of his life. The second series of paintings is based on The Relic, an 1887 novelby Portuguese author Ea de Queirz, which tells the story of anti-hero Teodorico Raposo whodeceives his wealthy, pious aunt in order to ensure her riches are bequeathed to him. To pleasehis aunt and to rid himself of his unfaithful mistress, he embarks on a journey to the Holy Land insearch of the religious relic after which the series is named. For the third group of works PaulaRego illustrates a new book in which her daughterCaroline Willing retells the traditional folktale Stone Soup, which has existed in numerousincarnations around the world for centuries. In it a young female protagonist saves herself fromstarvation by outwitting a group of villagers into providing her with ingredients for a soup that inthe end is able to feed them all. Rego and Willings version is re-imagined in a new context bythirteen watercolour and ink paintings that are suggestive of Portuguese landscapes and

architecture.Much of Regos work concerns folk tales, their consistent ability to endure and renew. In theseworks, a cast of expressive figures negotiate the boundary between caricature and figurativeabstraction in a manner that is typical of Regos double-edged satirical style. The frequentinclusion of animal figures in the works also provides compelling and ambiguous foils to thehuman cast.

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Jenni Tischer PINSternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956791116 Acqn 24499Pb 17x23cm 64pp 28col ills 15.95

Edited by Manuela AmmerTexts by Manuela Ammer, Barbara Kapusta, Ines Kleesattel, Karola Kraus

Pinis published on the occasion of Jenni Tischers eponymous exhibition at mumok in Vienna. Asthis publication vividly captures, her work weaves an unlikely bond between minimalist sculptureand the frayed, human history of textile work.

Unlike conventional exhibitions, Tischers gallery arrangement blurs the boundary betweendisplay and artwork: walls and floor interlock, open cubes intertwine with Viennese nettingrecalling Thonet chairs, and architectural objects allude to looms and pin cushions. Displayelements such as pedestals or frames are integral narrative elements, while colorful fabricpedestals, reminiscent of unrolled scrolls, pepper the room. Here, minimalist sculpture isunraveled to reveal hidden histories.

This publication ponders the impact of Tischers anachronistic practice: What is a medium, andwhat kind of information can it convey? How are work processes and human labor inscribed intomaterials and surfaces? And why are textiles, as fields of discourse and practice, gainingmomentum in the digital age? Between pins (needles) and PINs (personal identificationnumbers), this book considers the memory of materials and the digital encoding of identities,staking out a space for the human in a polished design world.

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Chuck Close NudesPace Gallery NY 2014 ISBN 9781935410522 Acqn 24306Pb 23x29cm 92pp 57col ills 33

A survey of Chuck Closes Polaroid and daguerreotype nudes and Big Nude(1967), a 10-by-21foot painting never before publicly exhibited in New York

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Kenneth Noland - Paintings 1975-2003Pace Gallery NY 2014 ISBN 9781935410539 Acqn 24307

Pb 24x27cm 76pp 55col ills 28.95

Kenneth Noland: Paintings 1975 2003 surveys 30 years of work that followed the artistsGuggenheim retrospective, beginning with the most recent painting from that exhibition, theasymmetrical, shaped canvas Vault(1976). In Paces exhibition, Nolands returns to the chevron,an iconic shape and pattern that he first explored in the 1960s. In Comet(1983) and Songs:Indian Love Call(1984) the vertical v-shape is utilized to hold a range of colour applied in variousdepths, thick and thin.Nolands melding of shape and colour is evident in a selection of work on view from his Flaresand Doorsseries. Flares: Homage to Matisse(1991) is an acknowledgement of the 20th centurymasters brilliant use of colour. In his own carefully considered approach to painting, Nolandshowed admiration for Matisse, having once said, I think that when you experience art Imean really have that experience when youre looking at it, it tends to lose gravity. It tends tofloat...Its true of Matisse as an example I mean, Matisses really float. And I think content comesfrom this experience, from kinetic experience.

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Kiki Smith WonderPace Gallery NY 2014 ISBN 9781935410560 Acqn 24310Hb 23x27cm 48pp 24col ills 28.95

In a series of works from 2011 to 2014, Smith again explores the rich terrain of expressions ofhuman and animal forms as well as celestial bodies and nature. Decay, rebirth, and eternalcycles of the seasons, nature, and eclipses recur throughout Kiki Smith: Wonder in works thatillustrate Smiths ability to move fluidly between materials with vastly different characteristics andproperties.